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BDP usurps Fosters as UK’s biggest architect

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Foster & Partners’ five year reign at top of UK rankings over, according to BD survey of world’s largest practices

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WA100 2025: The big list

World Architecture 100: View a table of this year’s top 100 architects

  • CPD 01 2025: Understanding the regulatory requirements for modern ventilation systems

  • Terraced streets tackle climate change with ambient loop system

  • What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley

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Why brick remains central to architectural craft

Satish Jassal examines the enduring relevance of brickwork in today’s built environment

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects

  • What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley

  • What made this project… Francis House by Gensler

  • What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design

  • What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects

  • What made this project… House of Communication by Henn

  • What made this project… Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins Brown

  • What made this project… The Wave by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Craigend Resource Centre by Inch Architecture

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

  • Why inclusive housing design benefits us all

  • Putting children and young people at the heart of housing design

  • Closing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education

  • UK nightlife faces extinction by 2029 if venue closures persist, warns industry body

  • Chief Medical Officer’s report calls for active travel, improved housing, and cleaner air in cities

  • Labour urged to address built environment’s role in young people’s lives

  • Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

  • Could the government’s curriculum review save the D&T GCSE and fix the green design skills gap?

  • Taskforce calls for cross-departmental unit to lead national older people’s housing strategy

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  • ZHA metro station opens as key hub in Riyadh transit system

  • First look at Sadler’s Wells East ahead of February opening

  • SPPARC completes restoration of Army & Navy warehouse in Westminster

  • DEDRAFT completes new-build home in rural Oxfordshire

  • Heatherwick completes mixed-use development in Xi’an

  • RX Architects reimagines two rural houses as contemporary family homes

  • Cooke Fawcett reimagines historic mill house with new studio and workshop

  • Novak Hiles Architects completes North London housing scheme on challenging backland site

  • Astudio completes first phase of Ebury Bridge Estate regeneration in Westminster

  • Moxon completes ‘hockey stick’ bridge crossing the River Severn

WA100 2024

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  • WA100 2024: The big list

  • WA100 2024: Digital edition

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Loss of LA’s architectural heritage raises questions about urban sprawl and design of timber structures

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Thousands of timber-framed structures have been destroyed as wildfires rage through Los Angeles County

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Can Henry Ford-style housebuilding work?

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Nick Pinder, Mariya Rankin and Magdalena Prus explore the contractual and regulatory implications of a cookie-cutter approach to housebuilding

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Architectural ambition and design by attrition

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Robert Adam calls for greater clarity in the planning system to help designers maintain their vision and ambition

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Why brick remains central to architectural craft

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Satish Jassal examines the enduring relevance of brickwork in today’s built environment

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Twenty years of brilliance: Christophe Egret’s legacy at Studio Egret West

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Martyn Evans reflects on two decades of collaboration with Christophe Egret

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The rising toll of disasters: why the US needs coordinated national action on climate change

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Wildfires, hurricanes, and rising sea levels have made no corner of the US immune to the impacts of climate change

  • Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

  • How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department

  • Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

  • Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine

  • Midland Metropolitan University Hospital: Inside the long, costly journey to deliver Birmingham and Sandwell’s new £1bn ‘super hospital’

  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

  • Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

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  • Why inclusive housing design benefits us all

  • ‘New methods for the old’: how Minnette de Silva redefined modernity

  • Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era

  • Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

  • Nithurst Farm: ‘an uncompromising engagement with architecture in all its spatial, material, and symbolic richness’

  • Who was to blame for the unseaming of Britain’s cities?

  • Interwar: Gavin Stamp’s tribute to Britain’s forgotten architectural diversity

  • Navigating the complexities of modern practice management

  • Inside Cedric Price’s archive: A career of unrealised visions and radical thinking